Llama Bob
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I've thought for a while what the levergun world really needs is an 1886 action that's stretched about 0.2" to allow a 3.0" OAL and unambiguously rated for the .50-110 body diameter at 46KPSI (which the modern guns can handle, but it gets people all worried as we saw here). If you then started with lengthened .50-110 brass at about 2.5" trim length and necked it to .358, .375, .416 and .458 with a 40 degree shoulder and left it straight at .510 you'd have heavy calibers for pretty much every application that should be the ballistic twins of .35 Whelen, .375 H&H, .416 Remington, .458 WM, and .500 NE. All those calibers already have flat point softs and solids in production from at least two vendors. There's nothing difficult engineering-wise about any of this really other than getting receivers and basic brass made.
I'm thinking there would be lots of people who'd want to own the baddest gun on the block without the difficulty of re-barreling etc.
I'm thinking there would be lots of people who'd want to own the baddest gun on the block without the difficulty of re-barreling etc.